Mark of Excellence Winners

We have some really exciting news!
Congratulations to The McKinney Boyd High School Honors Consortium Orchestra, directed by Michael Link & Michelle New. They are National Winners in the Mark of Excellence/National Orchestra Honors Project.
And Congratulations to The Cockrill Middle School Honors Band, directed by Gary Williams, are National Winners in the Mark of Excellence/National Wind Band Honors Project!
The Mark of Excellence consists of the National Wind Band Honors, National Choral Honors, National Orchestra Honors, National Jazz Honors, and National Percussion Ensemble Honors. It is a competition, entered by recordings, in which the top quarter are selected as National Winners and the second quarter receive Commended Honors.
This year 278 of the finest musical ensembles in the nation entered the competition. The project has now received entries from 38 states.
Congratulations on this wonderful achievement!